That my friend is a spelling error. The correct spelling is: "they're".

I don't need to read books, 99% of which are useless garbage.

Its not cranky to burn despicable magazines, books and CDs, and there's so much of them about. More like a good public service. Only last week I had to confiscate and tear the cover off a dictionary with Obama on it, stuff it inside and dump it.

That my friend is a spelling error. The correct spelling is: "they're".

I don't need to read books, 99% of which are useless garbage.

Its not cranky to burn dispicable magazines, books and CDs, and there's so much of them about. More like a good public service. Only last week I had to conviscate and tear the cover off a dictionary with Obama on it, stuff it inside and dump it.

Next you'll be telling me I can't burn certain holy books in my own backyard.

Right guys, you two are starting to make this personal which is starting to detract from the original topic and usually ends up with someone overstepping the mark.

So let's move on shall we.

Oh, by the way, you should have read that dictionary before you dumped it as it is confiscate, not 'conviscate', and despicable not 'dispicable'.

Glasshouse comes to mind for the two of you.

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In the novel Heathcliff is described as "dark-skinned", but it's generally interpreted as him being a southern European mix or a Roma. Either way he was never supposed to be White English but then there's no way he was meant to be Black either. "Dark-skinned" back then meant something entirely different.

Why do they have to ruin everything with multicult casting?

Clearly the inference was one of Mediterranean stock (romance being increased by introducing a White person hailing from a distant land, the same could be achieved by portraying Heathcliff as a Russian) , dropping a Negroid into the plot doesn't even boil my blood anymore, it just brings forth laughter. If the public general cannot see through this propaganda then they don't deserve to be saved and I'm increasingly of the opinion that these Labour voting morons deserve everything they get.

For those who have read the original the broad moral of the story is that however you dress up a scumbag--he stays a scumbag--so hopefully this production will not only be faithful to the original story--but be an object lesson.

I've never really taken that moral from the book whenever I've read it, but you obviously have a different interpretation

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

Heathcliff in the print version is utterly cruel and evil and Cathy is self absorbed, greedy and wild.

It is not a gentle romantic love story as it is mostly portrayed on film and TV, rather an examination of revenge and obsession.

If you are going to have an opinion on a book, especially one of the landmarks of English literature, at least read it first.

I really like Wuthering Heights and you're right when you say that both the main characters aren't particularly nice people. Having said that, Cathy always annoyed me a lot more than Heathcliff, silly selfish cow. I suppose it's the sign of a good novel when you can get so much from the characters in this way yet still feel a little sad at the end. I would still call it a love story - although with plenty of revenge and obsessive behaviour - but certainly not a gentle one!

Of course, exactly how dark Heathcliff was intended to be isn't the point here. The constant changing of classic characters from Whites to non-Whites, especially in old English and European stories, is getting bolder all the time. Particularly when they can pick up on one of the few "exotic", slightly non-White characters who pop up in literature from time to time (Heathcliff, Othello, etc) and hammer the image of Europe which has always been multicultural. It's an attack on English, British, and European identity, nothing less. We have Muslim Arab women in Robin Hood, Black Norse gods, gay Shakespeares. It's not about to get any better.